Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Intermediate

Industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6.

In this course, industry pro Deke McClelland teaches you how to build on your basic knowledge and achieve next-level effects in the premiere image-editing program from Adobe, Photoshop CS6. Discover how to seamlessly move and patch areas of a photo with the Content-Aware toolset; stretch the brightness of a scene with automatic and custom Levels adjustments; create intricate designs with text and shapes; and morph an image with layer effects and transformations. Deke also shares his techniques for sharpening details, whether addressing noise and highlight/shadow clipping or camera shake, and converting a full-color image to black-and-white. The final chapters show you how to best print and save images for the web, making sure all your hard work pays off in the final output.

11. The Content-Aware Collection

• Introducing the Patch tool
• Using Content-Aware Patch
• Retouching with Content-Aware Patch
• Using the Content-Aware Move tool
• Using Content-Aware Extend
• The Content-Aware Scale command
• Scaling in multiple passes
• Protecting skin tones
• The best of Photoshop automation

12. Adjusting Levels

• The new automatic Levels adjustment
• Customizing a Levels adjustment
• Understanding the Gamma value
• Opening up the shadows
• Previewing clipped pixels
• Retouching with Output Levels
• Making channel-by-channel adjustments
• Faking a gray card in post
• Assigning shortcuts to adjustment layers
• Editing the histogram

13. Sharpening Details

• Introducing the Smart Sharpen filter
• Understanding the Radius value
• Gauging the best sharpening settings
• Addressing color artifacts and clipping
• Sharpening a digital photograph
• The More Accurate check box
• Correcting for camera shake
• Sharpening with the Emboss filter
• Sharpening with High Pass
• Painting in sharpness
• How sharpening works

14. Creating and Formatting Text

• Creating and editing point text
• Font and type style tricks
• Type size and color tricks
• Kerning and tracking characters
• Creating and editing area text
• Selecting and formatting paragraphs
• Setting text inside a custom path
• Creating text along a path
• Adjusting baseline shift
• Creating and stylizing a logo
• Masking text into image elements
• Vector-based type

15. Drawing Shapes

• Drawing a dashed or dotted border
• Drawing and aligning custom shapes
• Creating your own repeatable custom shape
• Combining simple shapes to make complex ones
• Cropping, adjusting, and merging shapes
• Creating a soft, synthetic sparkle
• Saving a resolution-independent PDF file
• Turning a small image into a huge one
• The other vector-based layer

16. Layer Effects

• Depth, contour, and texture
• Imparting depth with a layer effect
• The power of the drop shadow
• Modifying a layer and its effects
• Saving custom default settings
• Creating a custom contour
• Introducing Bevel and Emboss
• Multiple effects and multiple layers
• Global Light and rasterizing effects
• Gloss and surface contour
• Adding texture to Bevel and Emboss

17. Paragraph, Character, and Layer Styles

• Creating and applying a paragraph style
• Redefining a style and styling a word
• Creating and styling a placeholder style
• Applying and creating layer styles
• Loading and customizing layer styles
• Merging and saving layer styles
• Styles store settings

18. Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp

• Transformation and Smart Objects
• Adjusting the interpolation setting
• Rotating a layer with Free Transform
• Scale, duplicate, and repeat
• Creating a synthetic star field
• Warping a logo with Arc and Flag
• Distort, perspective, and skew
• Using transformations to draw and correct
• Bolstering text with layer effects
• Adding highlights with Lens Flare
• Meet the transformations

19. Liquifying an Image

• The Warp and Reconstruct tools
• Brush size, hardness, and opacity
• The Pucker, Bloat, Push, and Twirl tools
• Saving and reapplying Liquify settings
• Lifting and slimming details
• Warping legs, arms, and fabric
• Improving a model's posture
• Removing the weight that the camera adds

20. Converting to Black & White

• Shoot in color, convert to black and white
• Three ways to grayscale
• Mixing a custom black-and-white image
• Simulating an infrared photograph
• Creating a sienna-infused sepia tone
• Creating a hyper-saturated image
• Introducing the Black & White command
• Customizing the Black & White settings
• Black & White meets the Channel Mixer
• Infusing an image with tint and color
• Grayscale and Split Tone in Camera Raw

21. Printing an Image

• Using the test document
• Print, position, and size
• Description and printing marks
• Establishing a bleed
• Getting reliable color
• Special printing options
• Previewing an image at print size
• Creating contact sheets
• Creating a multipage PDF
• The many ways to print

22. Saving for the Web

• Introducing Save for Web
• Creating the perfect JPEG image
• Creating a high-contrast GIF image
• The two varieties of PNG
• Downsampling for the web
• Adding copyright and contact info
• Making Internet imagery

Conclusion

• Until next time